[Mailman-Developers] Re: Todo list questions

[John Viega]

On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 02:43:24PM -0400, Scott wrote:

> just wanted to put in my $.02 about address matching.  i don't think
> any special mecahnsim other than 
> 
> string.lower(string.strip(address1)) ==
> string.lower(string.strip(address2)) should be used. therer are some
> instances , for example, 2 of my own address, where it is perfectly valid
> for user@furtherqualified.domain.dom to be a different address than
> user@domain.dom.  
> 
> in addition when you start taking into account how many parts you
> should compare based on individual top level domains, you're hard
> wiring knowledge that can change daily.
> 
> my vote is to have addresses match only if they are the same username
> and have the same doman part, case folded.
> 

Well, I agree with you, but I know people who will not.  Do you really
think it's a bad idea to let the site admin change it if he prefers?

John